VFX on "Black Gold"

[bigbossfr]

Hi,
Here some VFX i did on "Black Gold" at Duran Duboi (RIP).
I did all lookDev/lighting/rendering (with a coworker, we are 2 for this). We were ~10 in the 3D team.
All rendered with Vray for Maya.
Some objects scattered with Houdini.
Rendered in 4k, 70/80 million of polygons (full 3D with textures, no camap)

Sorry for the size of the image (click on the image for full res):


A little video :
http://vimeo.com/user9967952

Perhaps i will do a better video/breakdown/article/detail if i have time.

[dre4mer]

Thanks for posting this! Is the lighting setup on the city pretty simple?

-Ethan

[sandykoufax]

Very nice!
Even though I didn't see the movie yet, your scene is looks great!

[Zach Gray]

Amazing work. What kind of render time and memory usage are you seeing for something of that complexity? Did you render those in a single pass?

Thanks

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Pratty great piece of work ! How long did it took to make it?

[bigbossfr]

Thanks for posting this! Is the lighting setup on the city pretty simple?

-Ethan

Yes, a directional light for the sun, and an environment override with a ramp for the sky.

Amazing work. What kind of render time and memory usage are you seeing for something of that complexity? Did you render those in a single pass?

Thanks

Render time ~1h30 by frame in 4k, all in proxy (with some objects from Houdini) and textures in exr tiled/mipmapped.
First, we baked a irradiance map on 1 frame with "use camera path" setted, on a computer with 45giga ram.
After, we rendered on the renderfarm with computers which have 24giga ram.

Pratty great piece of work ! How long did it took to make it?

For the city, like 3 months.

[bazuka]

great work amigo keep it coming

[snivlem]

Nice one bigboss, very convincing detailed city.